Hunter pet abilities: Utilities & debuffs

An overview intending to make it a bit easier for hunters deciding what pets to bring along. All utilities and enemy debuffs that hunter pets can provide are covered, as well as each pet family's diet. Information was gathered using Petopia and Wowhead. Clicking on a pet family will bring you to the corresponding web page at Petopia, where you can find additional information, including different skins and where to find them.

Specialisations

When choosing a specialisation for a pet, it will be given a set of abilities unique for that specialisation.With the removal of Adaptation in 7.0.3, your pet can no longer learn abilities from other specializations than the one currently active. Also Combat Experience can no longer be increased.

Comments

Comment by SoCalWoWGal

This is a very useful guide for hunters of all levels and playstyles. I really like how you have broken everything down into easy to navigate tabs. Thank You for creating this guide!

Comment by WeazelGames

First of all great guide man! Thanks a lot!Just a few days ago, I needed this guide, so I made one with most of the info here in one page for all you hunters that want to have it all in one tab (off monitor) or one page that shows all, here's a simplified version of all this great info:

Comment by Sarthorius

Who said BM spec wasn't good? Most useful stuff are from exotic pets. Water walking in Legion for the win, right at the start.

Comment by fuzzywicked

This is what I got trying to find out what pets are tamable on the Broken Isles.This was totally useless, for both that and anything else.

Comment by Troelsy

Certainly got a bit stale in Legion for a buff nazi such as myself. lol

At least now people can get out their beautiful moths in raid without feeling guilty. lol

Rays are due an upgrade.. They are just ugly and boring.

Comment by justgiz

Seeing that large list of pets with no special abilities just makes me sad.

Comment by Lostelf

Forgive me, I'm new to hunter pets, but does the cat's stealth make them the best pet for DPSing in PvE as Survival/Marksmanship? It's just that it increases the damage of their first ability used, so I assume that puts them ahead of other pets.

Comment by Janettie

With the return of buffs in Battle for Azeroth, we might see more pet utility once again.